{"id":266,"date":"2024-02-27T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/?page_id=266"},"modified":"2024-02-27T08:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:36:02","slug":"final-project-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php\/final-project-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Project Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Project Summary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The artistic research project<strong> <\/strong>Neuromatic Game Art, a collaboration of game arts, philosophy, and  neuroscience, developed experimental game systems that explored the possibilities and limits of neurointerface-technology at the intersection of brain, computer, and arts. Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to measure the electrical activity of the brain. The project developed artistic forms of representing the resulting data streams in image and sound to make flow states and brain waves accessible in public performances in a playful ludic way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This experimental &#8220;Ludic Method&#8221;, a major advance in art-science using repeatable and quantifiable rule systems in an artistic context, allowed to playfully integrate brain-computer interfaces into a publicly performed discourse of ethical dimensions from self-optimization using consumer-neurointerfaces to collection of personal data for AI training and the privacy issues associated with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, rather than utilizing neurointerfaces only in their original purpose as measurement devices of brain activity, the project re-purposed them as artistic medium for self-expression instead of self-optimization, allowing signals such as muscle activity or electrode slippage that would have been regarded as artifacts in a scientific context to be used equally and meaningfully as data in the artistic context.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already at project start, the Ludic Method approach resulted in a novel format of publicly performed artistic research, the Neuromatic Brainwave broadcasts series on social media (YouTube) in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Art installations, exhibitions, festivals, and performances based on the same principle of playful public experimentation followed and are documented on this project webpage<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the highlights was a public performance using EEG and artificial intelligence in 2021, a neurophilosophical game chat. A large language model asked techno-philosopher Mark Coeckelbergh questions about the project while his brain activity was recorded. Another important performance was \u201cZero Action in the Savings Bank\u201d, which dealt with the possible synchronization of brain signals from two performers in the cashier&#8217;s hall of the Otto Wagner Postsparkasse, an architectural icon in Vienna. In this metaphoric work, there was no monetary transaction in the cashier&#8217;s hall, only the flow of thoughts between both performers resting on examination couches and filmed by surveillance cameras. Brain waves, measured via neuro-interfaces, appeared live on a large screen like stock market prices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ludic Method thus allowed to lucidly demonstrate that test subjects are also experimenters by shifting the roles and making all participants co-researchers. This enabled the research project to open new ways of dealing with novel technology, adopting and examining it in an artistic setting, transporting research out of the lab into the public in a playful way, and liberating technology in a form of self-empowerment from its potentially intimidating aura and exaggerated expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4245-900x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4245-900x600-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4245-900x600-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4245-900x600-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" data-id=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mindworm3-900x675-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mindworm3-900x675-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mindworm3-900x675-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mindworm3-900x675-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"273\" 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100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_3084.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_3084.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_3084-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" data-id=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EGCatParallel2022-7901-900x601-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EGCatParallel2022-7901-900x601-1.jpg 900w, 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class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4403-900x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4403-900x600-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4403-900x600-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neuromatic.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4403-900x600-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deutsch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Das k\u00fcnstlerische Forschungsprojekt Neuromatic Game Art, eine Zusammenarbeit von Spielkunst, Philosophie und Neurowissenschaft, entwickelte experimentelle Spielsysteme, welche die M\u00f6glichkeiten und Grenzen der Neurointerface-Technologie an der Schnittstelle von Gehirn, Computer und Kunst erforschten. Zur Messung der elektrischen Aktivit\u00e4t des Gehirns wurde die Elektroenzephalographie (EEG) eingesetzt. Das Projekt entwickelte k\u00fcnstlerische Formen der Darstellung der daraus resultierenden Datenstr\u00f6me in Bild und Ton, um Flow-Zust\u00e4nde und Gehirnstr\u00f6me in \u00f6ffentlichen Performances auf spielerisch-ludische Weise zug\u00e4nglich zu machen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diese experimentelle &#8220;Ludic-Methode&#8221;, die wiederholbare und quantifizierbare Regelsysteme in einem k\u00fcnstlerischen Kontext verwendet, war ein f\u00fcr k\u00fcnstlerische Forschung wichtiges Ergebnis. Sie erm\u00f6glichte es, Gehirn-Computer-Schnittstellen spielerisch in einen \u00f6ffentlich gef\u00fchrten Diskurs \u00fcber ethische Dimensionen zu integrieren,&nbsp; die von der Selbstoptimierung mit Hilfe von Verbraucher-Neuroschnittstellen bis hin zur Sammlung pers\u00f6nlicher Daten f\u00fcr das KI-Training und den damit verbundenen Fragen der Privatsph\u00e4re reichen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anstatt Neurointerfaces jedoch nur f\u00fcr ihren urspr\u00fcnglichen Zweck als Messger\u00e4te f\u00fcr Hirnaktivit\u00e4t zu nutzen, wurden sie im Rahmen des Projekts zu einem k\u00fcnstlerischen Medium. Signale aus Muskelaktivit\u00e4t oder dem Verrutschen von Elektroden, die in einem wissenschaftlichen Kontext als Artefakte betrachtet worden w\u00e4ren, wurden im k\u00fcnstlerischen Kontext als Daten genutzt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bereits zu Beginn des Projekts f\u00fchrte der Ansatz der Ludic-Methode zu einem neuartigen Format \u00f6ffentlich aufgef\u00fchrter k\u00fcnstlerischer Forschung, den Neuromatic Brainwave-Broadcasts auf sozialen Medien (YouTube) im Jahr 2020 w\u00e4hrend der Covid-19 Lockdowns. Es folgten Kunstinstallationen, Ausstellungen, Festivals und Performances, die auf dem gleichen Prinzip des spielerischen \u00f6ffentlichen Experimentierens basieren und auf dieser Projektwebseite dokumentiert sind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Einer der H\u00f6hepunkte war eine \u00f6ffentliche Auff\u00fchrung mit EEG und k\u00fcnstlicher Intelligenz im Jahr 2021, ein neurophilosophischer Spiele-Chat. Ein Large Language Model stellte dem Techno-Philosophen Mark Coeckelbergh Fragen \u00fcber das Projekt, w\u00e4hrend seine Gehirnaktivit\u00e4t aufgezeichnet wurde. Eine weitere wichtige Performance war &#8220;Zero Action in the Savings Bank&#8221;, die sich mit der Synchronisation von Gehirnsignalen zweier Performer im Kassensaal der Otto Wagner Postsparkasse in Wien, besch\u00e4ftigte. In dieser metaphorischen Arbeit gab es keine Geldtransaktion im Kassensaal, sondern nur den Gedankenfluss zwischen den beiden Performern, die auf Untersuchungsliegen ruhten und von \u00dcberwachungs-Kameras gefilmt wurden. \u00dcber Neuro-Interfaces gemessene Gehirnstr\u00f6me erschienen live auf einer gro\u00dfen Leinwand wie B\u00f6rsenkurse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die Ludic-Methode erm\u00f6glichte es auf anschauliche Weise zu zeigen, dass Testpersonen ebenso Experimentatoren sind, indem sie die Rollen vertauschte und alle Teilnehmenden zu Mitforschern machte. So konnte das Forschungsprojekt neue Wege im Umgang mit neuartiger Technologie er\u00f6ffnen, sie in einem k\u00fcnstlerischen Rahmen aufgreifen und untersuchen, die Forschung spielerisch aus dem Labor in die \u00d6ffentlichkeit tragen und die Technologie in einer Form der Selbsterm\u00e4chtigung von ihrer potenziell einsch\u00fcchternden Aura und \u00fcberzogenen Erwartungen befreien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final Project Summary The artistic research project Neuromatic Game Art, a collaboration of game arts, philosophy, and neuroscience, developed experimental game systems that explored the possibilities and limits of neurointerface-technology at the intersection of brain, computer, and arts. Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to measure the electrical activity of the brain. 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